The Orthodox Church of Tomorrow
Below is a letter from Metropolitan Methodios of Boston concerning physician assisted suicide and the upcoming ballot question no. 2 in Massachusetts. We thank his Eminence for his leadership on this issue! I’m guessing that he will not receive the same kind of vitriol about economic issues as anti-abortion proponents have in giving guidance in [...]
From Orthodox Christianity & the English Tradition: Hastings – 1066-1993 ‘King Harold was slain, and Leofwine and Gyrth, his brothers, and many good men. This battle took place on the feast of St. Callistus.’ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Accompanied by Malcolm Dunstall, I made a private visit to the site of the Battle of Hastings on [...]
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Since political elections normally deal with matters of policy, I do not normally make them the subject of pastoral concern. This year, however, the national elections in our country are not concerned simply with policies but with principles. My first comment, I suppose, should address that difference. About policies—most questions [...]
by Fr. Stephen Freeman Many of the postmodern challenges to the modern perspective are questions about the character and nature of knowledge. A particular focus has been on the concept of objectivity. When we view something objectively, we think of ourselves as standing outside the thing being observed. We are able to “walk around” it [...]
By Fr. Anthony Perkins How does your faith tradition inform your politics? The parts of my tradition that inform all my life, to include my politics, are the call to holiness and purity, to be a source of peace and joy to this world, and the call to offer sacrificial love to everyone regardless of [...]
I must have had this same conversation a thousand times. There is good criteria for Christians to vote, especially Orthodox Christians. Wisdom. Let us attend. Have you voted yet? Here is some advice from the Elder Paisios. When some people went to visit the Elder just before an election they asked who they should vote [...]
All religions are not the same, nor are they morally equivalent. Islam is bad, but if you thought Islam was alone in promoting evil, let this remind you that idolatry and human sacrifice of children, continues to this day. If you have not contributed to the support of Christian missionary work, CLICK HERE to do [...]
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon When the Evangelist Luke began his account of Jesus’ public ministry with the reading of Isaiah (4:18-19), he also used that prophetic text to provide a literary synopsis of the Gospel story. The passage begins, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me.” Here Luke [...]
UPDATED: Fr. Christiaan Kappes has been found safe with his translator in another country, no thanks to someone at our embassy in Greece. Thanks be to God for his safety! From Breitbart. First, our State Department sacrifices our Libyan Ambassador to muslim rioters, and now this. Please call your congressman. Father Christiaan Kappes, a [...]
by John G. West “You say the materialist universe is ‘ugly,’” wrote C. S. Lewis to a young skeptic in 1950. “…If you are really a product of the materialistic universe, how is it you don’t feel at home there?” Nearly half-a-century later, Lewis’s question still resonates. Modern society continues to operate largely on the [...]
